Half-Baked: Why Parents Leave Children in Hot Cars

Things just slip your mind on a busy day.

Time for a door alarm to ask, "Have you checked the children?".

This parody is for OP and all OCD concern trollers.

Is there something wrong with the current thread on this topic?

Supposedly they're working on a sensor that will sound an alarm if something living is still in the car.

The recent thread. Still active.

I'll never forget this devastating article. The author won a Pulitzer Prize for it.

Jesus no, I can’t read that.

My car has an alert that reminds you to check the backseat if it senses you opened the back doors on that trip.

[quote] The recent thread. Still active.

I can’t speak for the others, but when I see an opportunity to be R1, I’m going to leap first and ask questions later.

A sweltering car, Dolores, can be an unhappy mother’s best friend.

The same reason they get pit bulls as pets. They regret having children.

The summer has been decidedly light on stories about parents doing this.

Forgotten Baby Syndrome. Now that they have a name for it will it be considered a disease like alcoholism and they can’t be blamed for it?

As a parent that grief stricken and self punishing, can’t you plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter? Anything not to go through a trial or hearing.

I live in Phoenix AZ and it's hot AF here! A few years ago there was a story on the news of a girl I went to HS with that left her kid in the car that had to run into Neiman Marcus! The kid was okay but she was arrested! He was left with the valet... thankfully

Not to be too very "Mrs. Patsy Ramsey, formerly of Boulder CO" about it, but it seems to me remarkable that it does happen more often.

Watch a patent with a young kid or, worse, two. The strollers, the carriers, the luggage and hand-held things enough for an ocean crossing. Add in wailing babies and the paralyzed face of the parent, open mouth in locked position, eyes wishing they could retreat from their sockets, or drop from them and scurry away from the horrors...

Total mystery why parents don't strap a whole turkey in the car seat and head off, oblivious to having left baby in the grocery store freezer.

Well, as a 70s kid, I was left in the car alone on hot days many a time.